Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-05-04


Leave orders for ice with Mr.. Ham,
dellveryman, or with a. ID. JamisOn. 46
.. G. Ewart was in Kansas City last
week, and saw Edwin Booth in Rich
ellen.
Crazy supper tomorrow night. 1t
will be crazy when the crowd gets done
with it.
Justice Macdonald now has his of
fee in the old Cresset building, on north
Main street.
Early seed potatoes-a carload lot
received this week by Standiford, You
mans 81 Eldred. Al
For Rent-A house of 4 rooms; north
end of town; cheap to good tenant; in
quire at this Office. 40
An immense stock of mems working
shoes, and every pair warranted at
Wood x Vincent's. 40
J. r. Young has purchased the T.. Il.
Fristoe property, in the north part of
town, the price paid being $1,000.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. Z.
church will meet with Mrs. DR.. Moore,
Friday, May 9Th. Mrs. O'BRYAN, Sec.
David NJ. Stewart, postmaster, at
Elm Mills, was here yesterday, having
nearly recovered from a severe spell Of
sickness.
Paint your house with ready-mixed
paints, the best in the market, warrant
ed not TO crack or scale. Sold only by
Southworth, Medicine Lodge. AZ
Lands 4 Son. who have an extern
sive farm south of here Is miles, are
sheariug their sheep and think they
will get 10000 pounds of wool.
T.. w. Henkins has purchased the
half-interest of his partners, \. w. and
y. II. Mckinney, in the livery business,
and Will hereafter have sole control.
Mrs. Shepler wrote last week from
Colorado that the health of her daugh-
| ter, Miss Nora, was not 50 good, and
that she would have TO so farther south
into lower altitude.
The newest ard latest styles Of spring
millinery are now on exhibition at the
rooms of Mrs. Hatton and Stevens,
oyer the store of Byerley, Dark " Run
yam. Call and see them. Al
Ed. Smith, Of the firm of Updegraff
Il Smith, will be married ut Leaven-
worth, on the llth inst, TO Miss Bessie
Jones, OF that city. The pair will be
here III a few days thereafter.
Miss Carrie Bradley was anxious to
reach Lexington, Mo-. before the death
of her grandfather, Street Hale, ESD,
bit he died the day before she left this
city. He was nearly so years old.
Harry Anderson was in from Cold
water, last Saturday, on his way to
Kansas City TO meet his wife, who has
been visiting in Illinois several months.
lie is still running the stage line from
COldwater To Meade Center.
NJ. l.. Wilcox, agent of the old relia-
ble Burlington Insurance company, has
just settled two losses in this county,
one Of 500 OF "a stable and house for
II. III. Belch, and one for John Shire
man, total loss of his house.
An effort will be made tonight to get
the council to suspend the action OF the
stock ordinance and allow cows to run
at large inside the city limits from
May lst TO October LIST. There prom
Uses to be an interesting contest over
the matter.
1t is generally believed that cities of
the third class cannot vote aid to rail-
roads or other public enterprises.
Medicine Lodge should look this mat
ter up NJ once, for the probability is
that it will be called on soon to give
aid to a railroad.
All of the railroad graders and out
fits that were working on the Southern
| Kansas extension west of this city,
| have moved to the eastern extension of
the Mulvane road. The suppositIon
is, however, that the work will be con-
tinued west of here this summer.
Scott Cummins was i'm last week and
expressed great disgust at the reg
ularly laid out road, southwest of here.
near Brush creek, being fenced up.
lie declares that stranger would get
entirely lost in trying TO come
from Canema here. There is a great
deal of complaint about the roads
leading TO this city.
The new town OF Sawyer, in the
edge of Pratt county, ~ miles north of
Elm Mills, is having quite a boom. w.
G. Douglass, who, with Saml. Light,
are the local managers of the sale of
lots, was here this week and anuounc-
eel that already $1,000 worth of lots
had been disposed of. II is owned by
the Arkansas Valley Town company.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Is MA
KING FARM Loans on BETTER TERMS
FOR THE BORROWER THAN CAN BE OF
/ FERED ELSEWHERE. ALL INTEREST
~ PAYABLE AT THEIR OFFICE, THUS
SAVING EXPENSE OF RENTING THE
/ MONEY. CONSULT YOUR OWN INTEREST
BY CALLING on THEM BEFORE CON
TRACING FOR A LOAN on YOUR FARM.
Mrs. W. III. Worland is the kind Of a
woman to have around farm. One
day last week large hawk swooped
down on her poultry yard and carried
Ola chicken. After he had eaten it,
he came back for another. Mrs. Wor-
land had been watching him. and pick
ed up her husbands shotgun and
brought him down in good style. He
measured six feet and six inches from
tip to tip. Mr.. Worland says she can
beat him shooting.
Salina Herald: There are business
men in this and every other town who